|
Nothing Has Changed is a bit of a cheeky title for a career retrospective from an artist who is known as a chameleon, and this triple-disc compilation has other tricks up its sleeve. Chief among these is sequencing the SuperDeluxe 59-track set in reverse chronological order, so it opens with the brand-new, jazz-inflected "Sue Or in a Season of Crime" and concludes with David Bowie's debut single, "Liza Jane." On paper, this seems a bit like a stunt, but in actuality it's a sly way to revisit and recontextualize a career that has been compiled many, many times before. Previously, there have been single discs, double discs, and triple-disc boxes, but the largest of these was Sound + Vision, a box released in 1989, and the most recent was 2002's The Best of Bowie, which featured slightly different track listings in different territories but generally stopped in the late '90s. The two-CD version of Nothing Has Changed resembles this 2002 set -- there are absences, notably "John, I'm Only Dancing," "Diamond Dogs," and "TVC15," but they're not noticed among the parade of standards -- but it's easily overshadowed by the triple-disc SuperDeluxe set. This version of Nothing Has Changed touches upon nearly every phrase of Bowie's career, bypassing Tin Machine but finding space for early pre-"Space Oddity" singles that often don't make Bowie's comps, and naturally it samples from his fine Y2K records, plus his 2013 comeback The Next Day. This expansiveness alone would be noteworthy, but when it's combined with the reverse sequencing the compilation forces listeners to reconsider an artist whose legacy seemed so set in stone it appropriately was enshrined in museums. Obvious high-water marks are undersold -- there's not as much Ziggy as usual, nor as much Berlin -- so other eras can also enter the canon, whether it's the assured maturity of the new millennium or the appealing juvenilia of the '60s. The end result is something unexpected: a compilation that makes us hear an artist we know well in a whole new way.
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed
TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1
1 Sue (Or in a Season of Crime) (7:25)
2 Where Are We Now? (4:09)
3 Love Is Lost (4:07)
4 The Stars (Are Out Tonight) (3:57)
5 New Killer Star (3:43)
6 Everyone Says "Hi" (3:29)
7 Slow Burn (3:57)
8 Let Me Sleep Beside You (3:11)
9 Your Turn to Drive (4:53)
10 Shadow Man (4:45)
11 Seven (4:13)
12 Survive (4:17)
13 Thursday's Child (4:26)
14 I'm Afraid of Americans (V1) (4:25)
15 Little Wonder (3:41)
16 Hallo Spaceboy - Pet Shop Boys (4:25)
17 The Heart's Filthy Lesson (3:34)
18 Strangers When We Meet (4:18)
Disc 2
1 Buddha of Suburbia (4:24)
2 Jump They Say (3:53)
3 Time Will Crawl (4:20)
4 Absolute Beginners (5:35)
5 Dancing in the Street - Mick Jagger (3:10)
6 Loving the Alien (4:42)
7 This Is Not America - Pat Metheny Group (3:51)
8 Blue Jean (3:11)
9 Modern Love (3:56)
10 China Girl (4:15)
11 Let's Dance (4:08)
12 Fashion (3:26)
13 Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (3:32)
14 Ashes to Ashes (3:35)
15 Under Pressure - Queen (4:04)
16 Boys Keep Swinging (3:17)
17 Heroes (3:33)
18 Sound and Vision (3:03)
19 Golden Years (3:27)
20 Wild Is the Wind (6:05)
Disc 3
1 Fame (4:16)
2 Young Americans (3:10)
3 Diamond Dogs (5:50)
4 Rebel Rebel (4:30)
5 Sorrow (2:53)
6 Drive-In Saturday (4:30)
7 All the Young Dudes (3:08)
8 The Jean Genie (4:05)
9 Moonage Daydream (4:39)
10 Ziggy Stardust (3:12)
11 Starman (4:12)
12 Life on Mars? (3:48)
13 Oh! You Pretty Things (3:12)
14 Changes (3:35)
15 The Man Who Sold the World (3:57)
16 Space Oddity (5:14)
17 In the Heat of the Morning (2:58)
18 Silly Boy Blue (3:54)
19 Can't Help Thinking About Me (2:43)
20 You've Got a Habit of Leaving - David Jones & The Lower Third (2:29)
21 Liza Jane - Davie Jones & The King Bees (2:15)
|